?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+Minimal+Levels+of+Abstraction+in+the+History+of+Modern+Computing&rft.creator=Gobbo%2C+Dr+Federico&rft.creator=Benini%2C+Dr+Marco&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.description=From+the+advent+of+general-purpose%2C+Turing-complete+machines%2C+the+relation+between+operators%2C+programmers%2C+and+users+with+computers+can+be+seen+in+terms+of+interconnected+informational+organisms+(inforgs)+henceforth+analysed+with+the+method+of+levels+of+abstraction+(LoAs)%2C+risen+within+the+Philosophy+of+Informa-+tion+(PI).+In+this+paper%2C+the+epistemological+levellism+proposed+by+L.+Floridi+in+the+PI+to+deal+with+LoAs+will+be+formalised+in+constructive+terms+using+category+the-+ory%2C+so+that+information+itself+is+treated+as+structure-preserving+functions+instead+of+Cartesian+products.+The+milestones+in+the+history+of+modern+computing+are+then+analysed+via+constructive+levellism+to+show+how+the+growth+of+system+complexity+lead+to+more+and+more+information+hiding.&rft.date=2013-01&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F8846%2F1%2Fphte2013.preprint.pdf&rft.identifier=++Gobbo%2C+Dr+Federico+and+Benini%2C+Dr+Marco++(2013)+The+Minimal+Levels+of+Abstraction+in+the+History+of+Modern+Computing.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F8846%2F